After Les Lettres portugaises (1669), by Gabriel de Guilleragues, after La Religieuse (1780), by Denis Diderot, after Le Dialogue des carmélites (1948), by Georges Bernanos, here is The Rebellious N. by Michèle Reich, translated from french. This is the story of the tumultuous and contrasting life of a Polish Carmelite, centered on the passion of love, and based on historical truth. Catharina Zdenka was put in prison, tortured, and raped in 1961.